Sabrina Inowlocki

Conference announcement/call for papers! You’ll note that there’s no theme beyond “new research on apocryphal Christian literature.” We truly just want to hear about whatever interests you most in apocryphal Christian literature right now. More info here: www.nasscal.com/meetings/

Jewish Quarterly Review to become Open Access in 2026 - University of Pennsylvania Press Penn Press and the Katz Center are delighted to announce a new chapter in the history of the Jewish Quarterly Review. Beginning with the winter 2026 issue

Penn Press and @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social are delighted to announce that @thejqr.bsky.social will become fully Open Access beginning with the winter 2026 issue (coming in January)!

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Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset on 22 September 2025:
#RoshHashana
BL Harley MS 5794; Maḥzor, a service-book for the New Year's feast according to the German rite; 1614 CE; Germany; f.70v

Carmina figurata: text written in the form of a king #RoshHashanah
BL Oriental 2733; Mahzor for Rosh ha-Shanah, Franco-German rite; 14th century; France; f.51r

shanah tovah @enniusredloeb.bsky.social

Thank you for posting! It is important.

Leaving Academia.edu: ‘AI’ and Information Loss 1. Yesterday I deleted my Academia.edu account. This has a direct impact on my work here. I would like to reflect on this in this post. But first things first: What happened? Already back in May, I no...

Ihave not made up my mind yet but this is def worth reading. Thank you @petertarras.bsky.social medisi.hypotheses.org/7839

and the podcast is up! sorry I'm in such dim light it's, uh, the mystery of biblical conspiracy surrounding me

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9o1...

A scribe’s effort to correct an omission. The words that were accidentally left out are pulled along by one man who passes them to another who waits between the fourth and fifth lines to receive them - c. 1300, English Book of Hours, Walters Ms. W.102, f. 39v

I don't know why but this gives me hope

Enjoy!

Ancient Jewish cemetery discovered in UK near Roman ruins | The Jerusalem Post The cemetery, discovered on the Barbican estate, is understood to date back to 1070 and is located near ancient Roman walls.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in the UK, dating back to the Norman Conquest, was just discovered. www.jpost.com/history/arti...

Tools, Techniques, and Technologies Ancient scholars deployed innovative tools and techniques, both material (e.g., sundials and astrolabes) and literary or rhetorical, to interrogate and communicate knowledge of the natural world in fi...

Our book in honour of Liba Taub is (finally) out. I'm so pleased we could celebrate Liba in this way!

It is argued that 'claricia' who is depicted swinging from the initial 'Q'(uid) at the beginning of Psalm 51, is the illuminator.

Walters Ms. W.26, Claricia Psalter; late 12th - early 13th century; Germany (Augsburg); f.64r

YouTube video by The GenAut Project GenAut | Ángel Narro "Thecla’s Increasing Authority from Early Christianity to Late Antiquity"

Yesterday paper's recording:
Ángel Narro (València), •Thecla’s Increasing Authority from Early Christianity to Late Antiquity• genaut.univie.ac.at
@angelnarro.bsky.social

📣📣📣📣📣 If you are a PhD student or a post-doc and your interests converge with those of ROMANA, look closely:
Azrieli International Fellowships - Calls for Applications (2026)
The Azrieli Fellows Program is pleased to announce the call for applications for two prestigious fellowship opportunities:

Front Cover: Portrait of Constantius II in his consular finery, distributing largesse. Chronograph of 354, Romanus 1, ms. Barb. lat. 2154B, 13r. Rome, Biblioteca Vaticana. The Picture Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo.

New issue of Journal of Late Antiquity Vol. 18, No. (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55589 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @jmrcolvin.bsky.social

You know him for
/Against the Christians/,
/Homeric Questions/,
/On the Cave of the Nymphs/,
the /Isagoge/,
and /On Not Eating Animals/.
More from Porphyry coming soon! Like the Pearlsong, this volume will be available as an open-access PDF and a beautiful hard copy.

This week I finished typesetting the next 4T book, Fabien Muller on Porphyry's Letter to Anebo & Philosophy from Oracles: Greek & Latin fragments, Eng. translations, glossaries, and short commentary.

Stay tuned if you're interested in gods and daemons, theurgy, and oracles in dactylic hexameter!

MOP — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW Announcement Bar

Announcement! Ancient Jew Review is the new host of Models of Piety (MOP), the annual meeting of scholars of religion in late antiquity. If you regularly attend SBL/AAR, come join us at this year's cocktail hour. More info here:

I can tell you that 14-year old girl soccer is no better...

Catullus's rudest poem Friendship and poetry

Catullus’s rudest poem, my new translation. You know you want to read it. You can even hear it read.

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La note explicative, elle, n'alourdit pas du tout le texte...😅

The Syriac Legal Documents of the 3rd Century CE. By John F. Healey. Series: Supplement to Aramaic Studies, volume 20. Brill. 2025.

📢New release!

📜 John Healey presents a re-edition and translation of 3rd-century #Syriac legal parchments from Upper Mesopotamia, with extensive commentary. These documents constitute our earliest significant evidence of the Syriac language and script.

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#acrel #Aramaic

Cover of fascicle XI.2.12 of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae, reus-robustus.

The latest installment of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae is finally in print. From "reus" to "robustus".

2 postdoctoral fellows for the ERC-project ‘Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle. Readers and Readings of the Greek-Latin Translations’ (FitMA) Intrigued by the Medieval Aristotle? Join our research group!

Want to work with the FitMA-team? Here is your chance! Join our great project and get paid for it! Two postdoc positions open! #classicsky #medievalsky #philsky
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#Event | Bridges and Boundaries, Australian Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, on February 8-9, 2026 in Sydney, Australia | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

#Jews #Christians #relations #AAJS #Jewishstudies

Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2025

Congratulations!